OUR STORY
At Ontario Tech Space & Rocketry (OTSR), we’re driven by one goal: to push the boundaries of what students can achieve.
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Founded in August 2022 with just 13 members, OTSR began as a small, ambitious rocketry team with a single mission: to bring high powered rocketry to Ontario Tech University. What started in a classroom and a few shared labs has since grown into a thriving, multidisciplinary organization of over 100 students spanning engineering, science, business, and the arts.
Today, OTSR has evolved into a comprehensive space systems program that designs, builds, and tests both high-powered rockets and planetary rover platforms. Through our two divisions — OTRAS (Rocketry and Aerospace) and OTOPS (Planetary Systems and Rover) — we continue to expand what’s possible for student engineering on campus. OTRAS drives our flight program forward, developing increasingly advanced propulsion, avionics, and recovery systems, while OTOPS, newly founded this year, is preparing to compete for the first time, marking a major milestone in OTSR’s growth.
From custom electronics to advanced flight simulations, every project reflects our commitment to hands-on learning, teamwork, and technical excellence.
Our journey has been one of relentless progress: from MK I (2022), which reached nearly 10,000 ft while conducting ionizing-radiation research, to MK II (2024), which soared to 20,000 ft and placed OTSR among the top rocketry teams in Canada, to MK III (2025), our first-ever two-stage rocket, each flight has strengthened our foundation. Now, as we develop MK IV, a two-stage system targeting 42,000 ft with refined avionics and scientific payloads, we remain committed to the same spirit that started it all: We Fly High. We Explore. We Succeed.​
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Logan Yee
President
Ontario Tech Space and Rocketry
Founded in 2022 as Ontario Tech Rocketry, our design team has grown from a small group of students designing rockets between exams and studying to a major team with nearly 100 members participating in national events such as Launch Canada. Working out of our lab in the ACE building of Ontario Tech University, we started our journey with the OT MKI, which made its debut in Timmins, Ontario, for Launch Canada 2023, where it blasted off surrounded by the expansive wilderness of Northern Ontario.
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Now the OTRAS team has the experience of 3 completed missions, we move forward eager to reach greater heights in the next Launch Canada where we will Fly and Succeed.
OTOPS is a newly founded engineering design team and what we may lack in experience we make up for in determination and dedication. Currently, we are designing our first competition rover which will make its debut in Drumheller, Alberta, for the Canadian International Rover Challange in the summer of 2026.
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Working from our lab in Ontario Tech University's ACE building we're spending our time between exams, classes, and sometimes till dawn building our rover and expanding our team. With our rover we will Explore and Succeed.
